In situating the juridical in between the ritual and disciplinary as a mode of ordering both more historically contingent and more essential to imperial tensegrity I confronted an interesting problem, one which I came across in reading Durkheim. The highest achievement of the juridical would be to abolish itself, and this end is implicit in the organization of the juridical and its embeddedness in institutions. Let’s work with my definition of the juridical as placing a ceiling on the vendetta by introducing higher order arbitration at those points where the vendetta threatens to undo imperial order; while, on the other end, preserving what is ultimately a ritually enacted originary nomos establishing property rights—which really means deferring the recrudescence of the vendetta within the juridical, the ultimate endpoint of which is executing the king as a traitor. The juridical doesn’t have to eradicate the vendetta, even though that invariably seems to happen; it just needs to contain it, even while preserving “cultural” traces (young girls might still invoke the protection of their older brothers, etc.). And the juridical can introduce some reshufflings within the nomos, but not past the point where challenges to existing property threaten to exceed the possibility of adjudication.
If… Then: The Idiom of Data Exchange
If… Then: The Idiom of Data Exchange
If… Then: The Idiom of Data Exchange
In situating the juridical in between the ritual and disciplinary as a mode of ordering both more historically contingent and more essential to imperial tensegrity I confronted an interesting problem, one which I came across in reading Durkheim. The highest achievement of the juridical would be to abolish itself, and this end is implicit in the organization of the juridical and its embeddedness in institutions. Let’s work with my definition of the juridical as placing a ceiling on the vendetta by introducing higher order arbitration at those points where the vendetta threatens to undo imperial order; while, on the other end, preserving what is ultimately a ritually enacted originary nomos establishing property rights—which really means deferring the recrudescence of the vendetta within the juridical, the ultimate endpoint of which is executing the king as a traitor. The juridical doesn’t have to eradicate the vendetta, even though that invariably seems to happen; it just needs to contain it, even while preserving “cultural” traces (young girls might still invoke the protection of their older brothers, etc.). And the juridical can introduce some reshufflings within the nomos, but not past the point where challenges to existing property threaten to exceed the possibility of adjudication.